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3D face modeling has been an active area of research in computer vision and computer graphics, fueling applications ranging from facial expression transfer in virtual avatars to synthetic data generation. Existing 3D deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Fariborz Taherkhani , Aashish Rai , Quankai Gao , Shaunak Srivastava , Xuanbai Chen , Fernando de la Torre , Steven Song , Aayush Prakash , Daeil Kim

The creation of 3D human face avatars from a single unconstrained image is a fundamental task that underlies numerous real-world vision and graphics applications. Despite the significant progress made in generative models, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

We present an invert-and-edit framework to automatically transform facial weight of an input face image to look thinner or heavier by leveraging semantic facial attributes encoded in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 V N S Rama Krishna Pinnimty , Matt Zhao , Palakorn Achananuparp , Ee-Peng Lim

We propose LatentSwap, a simple face swapping framework generating a face swap latent code of a given generator. Utilizing randomly sampled latent codes, our framework is light and does not require datasets besides employing the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Changho Choi , Minho Kim , Junhyeok Lee , Hyoung-Kyu Song , Younggeun Kim , Seungryong Kim

Recently, synthesizing personalized characters from a single user-given portrait has received remarkable attention as a drastic popularization of social media and the metaverse. The input image is not always in frontal view, thus it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jeong-gi Kwak , Yuanming Li , Dongsik Yoon , David Han , Hanseok Ko

High quality facial image editing is a challenging problem in the movie post-production industry, requiring a high degree of control and identity preservation. Previous works that attempt to tackle this problem may suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xu Yao , Alasdair Newson , Yann Gousseau , Pierre Hellier

Generating animal faces using generative AI techniques is challenging because the available training images are limited both in quantity and variation, particularly for facial expressions across individuals. In this study, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Takuya Igaue , Catia Correia-Caeiro , Akito Yoshida , Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki , Ryusuke Hayashi

Latent space exploration is a technique that discovers interpretable latent directions and manipulates latent codes to edit various attributes in images generated by generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, in previous work, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yuki Endo

Manipulating latent code in generative adversarial networks (GANs) for facial image synthesis mainly focuses on continuous attribute synthesis (e.g., age, pose and emotion), while discrete attribute synthesis (like face mask and eyeglasses)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhou Kangneng , Zhu Xiaobin , Gao Daiheng , Lee Kai , Li Xinjie , Yin Xu-Cheng

In this paper, we present our framework for neural face/head reenactment whose goal is to transfer the 3D head orientation and expression of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Face editing represents a popular research topic within the computer vision and image processing communities. While significant progress has been made recently in this area, existing solutions: (i) are still largely focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Martin Pernuš , Vitomir Štruc , Simon Dobrišek

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) GANs for human heads synthesize and render photorealistic 3D models in real-time and offer a vast variety in identity and appearance. However, controlling specific semantic attributes such as hair color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florian Barthel , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Wieland Morgenstern , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have attained photo-realistic quality in image generation. However, how to best control the image content remains an open challenge. We introduce LatentKeypointGAN, a two-stage GAN which is trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

The semantically disentangled latent subspace in GAN provides rich interpretable controls in image generation. This paper includes two contributions on semantic latent subspace analysis in the scenario of face generation using StyleGAN2.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Bo Li , Qiulin Wang , Jiquan Pei , Yu Yang , Xiangyang Ji

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing high-quality and visually realistic face images by unconditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks of control over the generation process in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Xianxu Hou , Xiaokang Zhang , Linlin Shen , Zhihui Lai , Jun Wan

We propose a method to disentangle linear-encoded facial semantics from StyleGAN without external supervision. The method derives from linear regression and sparse representation learning concepts to make the disentangled latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Yutong Zheng , Yu-Kai Huang , Ran Tao , Zhiqiang Shen , Marios Savvides

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have led to remarkable achievements in face image synthesis. While methods that use style-based GANs can generate strikingly photorealistic face images, it is often difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Safa C. Medin , Bernhard Egger , Anoop Cherian , Ye Wang , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Xiaoming Liu , Tim K. Marks

Several research groups have shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate photo-realistic images in recent years. Using the GANs, a map is created between a latent code and a photo-realistic image. This process can also be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Andrea Giardina , Soumya Subhra Paria , Adhikari Kaustubh

In this paper, we propose $\tau$GAN a tensor-based method for modeling the latent space of generative models. The objective is to identify semantic directions in latent space. To this end, we propose to fit a multilinear tensor model on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 René Haas , Stella Graßhof , Sami Sebastian Brandt